At The Chronicle of Higher Education, “journalistic standards” are of the double kind. And incivility is a firing offense — unless you’re criticizing a conservative, in which case nasty smears are all the rage

Those who argue for reform that's about overall excellence and improving the opportunities for all students have been tarred in recent years as anti-reform or racist. But laudable efforts to help our least fortunate students need not come at the expense of the rest. We can do much better by all our children--and the first step is escaping the pinched confines of the achievement-gap mentality.

While the Common Core effort to impose uniform national standards on K-12 schooling is a good start toward testing new educational techniques on a level playing field, increasing federal control over education could have major drawbacks.

Racial preferences thrive shrouded in secrecy.

Shouldn"t we have learned by now the danger of embracing national standards when we have no notion of what form they"ll take?

Setting standards and tests at the state level is no guarantee of success, but the good work outside of Washington could be rendered moot by a test created inside the Beltway.

With the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization looming and Washington’s eyes focused on school turnarounds and the Common Core State Standards, we must listen to the voices of dynamic leaders tackling the challenge of high-quality literacy instruction in the nation’s school districts.

In February 2012, President Obama announced the end of No Child Left Behind as we know it: waivers for any state willing to meet the Administration's standards. In the latest American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Education Outlook, Ben Riley from NewSchools Venture Fund explains the potential perils of this plan.